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' MQETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON, D. C.

6 mzixwa UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES BREAKEY, OF BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR TO ALDEN TYPE MACHINE COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TYPE-GAS E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,768, dated January 18, 1881.

Application filed October 26, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES BREAKEY, a citi zen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kingsand State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Type-Cases, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to type-cases or channels for setting and distributing machines, and specially to that class of cases described in Letters Patent of the United States granted to Abbot A. Low, October 12,1880, No. 233,264,.

My improvement consists in making a notch in the edge of the wall of the type-case near its lower end, for the reception of a removable stop, whereby the type are retained in the case as the latter is transferred from one machine to the other.

This invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a side view, partly in section. Fig. 2 is a side view showing the nick. Fig. 3 is a section showing the stop.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

The letter A designates the body of the case, and b its flange, and the type stand side by side in a continuous row therein.

The letter O designates a stop, whereby the type are retained within the case A Whenever the latter is removed from the distributingmachine to the setting-machine. This stop 0 consists of a piece of sheet metal, and it is held in its position by a nick or notch, cl, which is formed in the plain or un'flanged edge of the case A, leaving the other or flanged edge solid. The nick d is located near one end of the case A, which is its lower end, and the piece of sheet metal constitntin g the stop 0 is provided with an offset, 0, which enters the nick, one portion of the stop extending into the case and the other portion extending in an outer direction, as shown in Fig. 3, for convenience of handling.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with the case A, having the notch din its wall, of the stop 0, having a shoulder or offset, 0, to fit in said notch, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in the presence of .two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES BREAKEY.

Witnesses:

J. HERMANN WAHLERS, CHAS. WAHLERS. 

